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A MYGA may be useful for someone looking for a short- term, low-risk investment option with a guaranteed rate of return, while a QLAC may be useful for someone looking to supplement their retirement income.

I'm amped; I’m ready to go. I feel good because we have a good topic today about Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities and how they solve for inflation, how they can solve for inflation, and at least address it pragmatically and contractually.

Today’s topic is transferring a maturing CD certificate of deposit into an MYGA. Should you do that? Could you do that? Can you do that? How can you do that? Is it suitable? Is it appropriate? Those are all good questions.

So what is a MYGA? It's a Multi-Year Guarantee Annuity, M-Y-G-A. It's the annuity industry's version of a CD. So how do CDs work? You lock in the money for a specific duration, and during that duration, on an annual basis, you get a specific percentage. The same thing applies to MYGAs.

You know me, you trust me, and you know I'm going to tell you the truth. Today's topic is Retirement Withdrawal Strategies. We're talking about MYGAs, Multi-Year Guarantee Annuities. So, we’ll go through how you can use MYGAs for your retirement withdrawal strategies.

When I started calling John Lenz the “Annuity Architect” a while back, I couldn’t have picked a better description of this mad-smart superstar. First of all, John has the best baritone voice of all time.

Today's topic is, "Don't buy annuity stories." That's a big one to unpack, but let's start unpacking it. In the world of sales, everybody that ever talked to me like a manager or salesperson, they're like, "Stories sell. You need to tell stories to the people because they can relate to it.

Today's topic is the inverted annuity yield curve. Now, CNBC, Fox Business, and everybody in the newspapers and the Wall Street Journal are just writing these articles about the inverted yield curve. What is that?

he focus today is Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities and explaining the death benefits. Yes, we do have to explain it because when you're looking at the CD type products, you have to understand how they work and understand when we quote all carriers, why some carriers finish at the top, and how to make a decision that's informed and based on your timeframe.

I'm amped, I'm ready to go. I feel good because we have a good topic today about multi-year guarantee annuities and how they solve for inflation, how they can solve for inflation, and at least address it in a pragmatic and contractual way. All righty then. We're going to talk about multi-year guarantee annuities.

So you're looking for the best MYGA annuity rates? You can find the best MYGA rates at stantheannuityman.com. It has live feeds of the best MYGA fixed-rate annuity rates in the country. And you can filter it by your state of residence.

So what are your four choices at the end of your MYGA term? Make sure you know your options so you can make the best decision for your specific situation. Let’s go.

So you're shopping for the highest MYGA rates? Let's talk about how to find the best and highest MYGA rates because that's how you need to look at them. You need to find the best rates available for your specific situation. For the record, Multi-year guarantee annuities are also known as MYGAs.

So if you're not familiar with MYGAs, let me go through it quickly. Multi-year guarantee annuity, that's what MYGA stands for. It's the annuity industry's version of a CD. It's very simple; there are no moving parts, there are no market attachments, and you're going to get a guaranteed interest rate for a specific period that you choose.

So, annuity companies, how do they make money? There's a reason that annuity companies have significant buildings and that they do very, very well. Why? It's because they know when we're going to die. Property and casualty companies, however, don't know when the hurricane's going to hit. They don't know when the tornado's going to hit.